Hinge raises questions and purposes answers in a way that feels genuine. I think it feels genuine because the hosts are authentic about their beliefs and struggles with them. It’s a great listen and I plan to give it a second listen sometime soon!

I enjoyed the first couple of episodes that were based on research. The personal interviews should have been sited better in the audio. Where are the personal stories for those that suffered, did not get their prayers answered and lost faith? Where are interviews of other religions? These 2 guys are not the first to do this. Where’s the history on questioning faith? The second half of the show pandered towards Christianity.

This is a good resource to point skeptics to who have never actually sat down and thought about the big questions of faith and God. Good topics and interviews to wrestle with but it would be unwise to stop here! Keep seeking and learning!

Faith in Jesus Christ is lot more then personal warm and fuzzy feelings. Are we truly Born Again? It is important for Born Again Christian read and study Bible. If someone lacks wisdom to understand pray and ask God. One have to take the Bible as true word of God. Not what “christian” scholars say doubting Bible. (Many times archeology has prove Bible correct.) That’s what Satan did to Eve at the Garden. Today Satan does same thing making us to doubt word of God and His promises. As Heaven is real, so is hell.

I really like that you can’t just listen to this and it tells you an answer. You still have to decide yourself and they provide great sources and definitely try to remain unbiased. To the review saying that it’s a skeptic and an atheist rather than a pastor and an atheist is absolutely not true and the podcast is not misleading. The pastor very much believes in God but is honest about any doubts he’s faced...which I’m assuming all Christ followers have had at some point. Overall it’s very great!

This claims to be a Christian and an Atheist but Is more accurately a conversation between a skeptic and an atheist. Why they mislabel one can only guess. They make interesting conversations but are more or less an echo chamber as it’s evident they have similar viewpoints. Disappointed that it’s deceptive and not an honest discussion.

I think it's well produced. I appreciate the humility. I don't think it's looking at all of the evidence. For example episode 2 didn't really dig deep. Brief mention of Ravi Zacharias, but no interview or mention of amazing apologists like J Warner Wallace (homicide detective who put Christianity under the same scrutiny as a cold-case which turned a 30 something year old athiest into a follower of Christ) or Frank Turek. In episode 3, where it talks about Jesus not claiming to be God, there was zero mention of how the Old Testament points to Jesus. Isaiah 9:6 says a child will be born and he will be called Mighty God. Many other predictions at least 500 years before Jesus which spoke about Him in pretty amazing accuracy. Jesus revealed Himself as the one mentioned in the OT.

I come to this podcast late, with the benefit of hearing the finished product at once. I have to say that it is one of the most candid and civil discussions between a questioning believer and a hopeful atheist I have heard on podcasts these days, and I’ve heard many. They don’t take any shortcuts to conclusions, but genuinely wish to know the truth. It seems that many who rated poorly only listened until the 2nd episode, when they deemed it was uneven-handed in favor of the “Christian Apologist.” If one continues to listen, and onward into Drew’s sequel podcast Room for Doubt, one will see that he is not a dogmatic apologist, but a well-educated seeker of truth that sincerely grapples (or has already grappled) with the questions and arguments his intelligent co-host and Atheist Cory Markum puts forth. What is more, an entire episode is dedicated to Cory’s (atheist) arguments. Both of them are very generous to one another. Admittedly, it sounds like Cory *wants* it to be true, but note that he still can’t believe it. This has been incredibly thought provoking and helpful for me as I journey on my own core-shaking existential crisis of faith and skepticism. No matter where you find yourself on the faith spectrum, you will be challenged with things that you won’t like, and some that you will. If you don’t really care to know the truth or if you just want a podcast that bashes the opposing side to affirm your present beliefs, this podcast is not for you.

These are fundamental questions. These two are willing to search for for the truth and face the facts along the way. Are you? Having taken the journey with them, they open and closed more than a few boxes. Intriguing progress. Can’t wait for more.

I appreciate two people willing to engage in a tough conversation with someone who thinks about life completely differently. Highly recommend!

Incredibly well done podcast. One host an atheist, one a Christian. Both are incredibly honest and respectful of the other, while also willing to challenge the others thinking. Gives us a good example of how to engage in debate and argument with charity and respect.

Basically 2 atheists driveling about what they don’t know. If the Holy Scriptures is not your final authority and you are looking for “proof” from outside sources....you can not believe.

Highly recommended! VERY thoughtful and well laid out over the course of the series. I love that these two men could speak with respect while disagreeing strongly with each other. More of this please!

Really enjoyed listening through this whole podcast. Happened to come at a particularly doubt-filled season of my life and I’ve appreciated both of your points of view. In some ways the discussions and arguments have helped me put my own doubts into words that I couldn’t find on my own. Still doubting and still searching for answers, so I’m looking forward to the next series you guys make.

2 friends who have completely different beliefs look at their questions of faith with many scholars. Podcast is well done. Sound is great, topics are great, but not something that some Christians would enjoy. These guys go over some serious faith questions.

It is very refreshing for people to be kind to one another even if they disagree, especially, discussing topics this important

This is a great podcast. I have really enjoyed listening to it, and I love the honest exposure to the Christian faith. I have a question for Corey, how do you ground morality if there is no God. I can totally empathize with what you said in the 4th episode, but if there is no God that has put a sense of objective morality in us, how can there be a thing that is good or evil? Wouldn’t these things be mere preferences? I don’t see evil as a problem for God’s existence, rather proof for it. In the same way you can’t see the stars during the day, if there was not so much blackness in the world, we couldn’t appreciate the beauty of the Good and loving. Drew knows what I’m saying. Can’t wait for next episode!!

I love this podcast, but it feels to long between shows. I’ll sometimes forget who is asking who the questions so it will throw me off.

This podcast was brought to my attention by my friend, Ben. It took awhile to get around it, but I've now listened to two installments. I am super impressed with the insight and honesty hère. With so many outlets constantly bombarding and assaulting us, we've become noise makers to each other. Rarely do we actually LISTEN to opposing viewpoints and consider them. Instead, we are too busy contemplating our attacks. This series proves that two diametrically oppossed viewpoints can be heard, understood, and respected.

Uggg.. can they at least talk to someone who isn't a christian apologist? I mean they only talk to Christian apologists and no one else. they are trying to pretend to be evenhanded but they never talk to anyone who disagrees with Christianity. So disappointing...

I am learning quite a bit through this Podcast! Keep up the good work!

I look forward to a new episode every week.

Debates are great but discussions are even better. Nobody is trying to win here.

Deeply thoughtful, carefully executed, and a high production value! Great stuff thus far @drewsokolnyc & @cory_markum!

This is Christian apologetics dressed up as "doubt" in a patently dishonest way. If you think Fox News is "fair and balanced" and Lee Strobel accurately presents a skeptical argument in the Case for Christ you will love this podcast. If you are in search of intelligent thoughtful skepticism look elsewhere. This comes off like two youth pastors trying to teach apologetics to high schoolers with one "role playing" as an atheist. I got through a few episodes but can't handle any more. They barely present any skeptical views, and certainly miss or purposefully ignore the well known reasons to doubt the historicity of the NT. Most of the podcast is them uncritically presenting easily debunked Christian arguments as though they are prima facie dispositive. Though I won't be listening to find out, I would wager it is possble that the "atheist" either reveals he was role playing or pretends to "convert" at the end. If you are genuinely interested in the real discourse about the historicity of the resurrection look up any debate that folks like Habermas or Licona have with credible skeptics like Bart Ehrman and don't waste your time on this podcast.

Cory and Drew are hitting at the heart of the discussion of whether or not Christianity is true. They do so with honest questions and respectful discussions.

I almost cried a bit in the first episode. As someone who feels caught in between belief, this podcast hits home. Feeling somewhat agnostic, my question is...what would it take for me to pick a side. Both are, in their own ways, compelling. I’m looking forward to hearing this journey and learning from it!

This podcast is what we need in this divisive age, and one in which we're losing the ability to have different opinions and remain friends. Thanks for producing this.

This podcast is an awesome resource for believers and unbelievers alike. It fairly evaluates the two sides of the argument and investigates questions in a way that is engaging, thought-provoking, and helpful! I eagerly wait for each upcoming episode!!

Love the open dialogue about people’s real feelings a beliefs regarding the Christian faith.

Though I appreciate the civility of the conversation, I'm not sure what the one atheist (Cory) represents in the podcast, since he basically just goes along unquestioningly with the most shallow Christian apologetics. The fact that this podcast launches by taking the word of Liberty University apologist Gary Habermas at face value tells you everything you need to know.

Hinge explores an important topic in a way that's neither stiff nor stuffy. The interviews, the dialogue, the music and production all blend together seamlessly. Very relatable and engaging. Thank you for bringing this to the wider audience!

This is an excellent podcast!!! I appreciate the insightful comments. I enjoy the provocative and insightful comments. My complaint is that it is not as long as I’d like and I wish I didn’t have to wait a week for the next one. Nice job!!!

This podcast has been great. Refusing to give any easy answers and giving equal voice to both sides, anyone can listen to this and feel as if their perspective is being fairly presented. At the end of the day we can all wrestle with the burden of evidence.

Two thirty-year-olds pretend to think.

Honest, vulnerable, insightful, and intriguing dialogue that I have loved thus far. If anything, it has strengthened my belief in the face of questions. Doubt is heavy and scary, but I believe we have a God who is with us in the midst of it. Keep them coming!!

I appreciate the thoughtfulness of this discussion and the willingness to explore beliefs. Great job!

Cory/Drew, another good podcast. Keep digging. T.Strong (Ketans dad)

Personal stories about faith blended with honest inquiry into the central claims of the Christian faith amounts to one of the most unique podcasts I've listened to.

I’ve struggled with doubt for years. Am I saved? How do I know for sure? If I’m questioning my salvation I have to question God existence. Do I have enough faith? After wrestling with thoughts such as these I began to understand Calvinism. Seeing how I could never save myself and was elected gave me great comfort! However, after my wife and I adopted 3 kids and have been going through hell for years dealing with these damaged kids and their attachment issues, I have begun to question everything once again. Excited to continue listening!

It's rare to hear people diving into these questions in such a raw, thoughtful and human way. Like peeling back the surface and being honest with what they find underneath, they touch upon feelings and questions we've had as Christians and Athiests, but haven't had anywhere to ask them outloud. I'm so grateful for this conversation taking place, and for it reminding me that our questions are not only ok to be asking, but very important ones, and ones we shouldn't ignore.

I'm with those who are really enjoying this conversation. Very rare to see respectful conversation like this!

After just two episodes, I’m done. If you had an academic Biblical scholar involved instead of dishonest apologetics, it might be interesting. But claims such as multiple non-Christian witnesses to Jesus are patently false. The only non-Christian writings about Christianity are those writing about what Christians claimed. No one says their claims were true. We also have no evidence any of the leaders of the early church were martyred. Those tales were invented decades later. About the thousands of manuscripts....yeah, but only if you are counting the bulk of them, from the 14th and 15th centuries. We have nothing from the first century. A small fragment from the second century. It really takes until the 4th century before you have any complete manuscripts. And those early manuscripts vary widely from the later church-redacted ones. So yeah, this is not the podcast it claims to be. Anyone looking for facts rather than apologetics needs to look elsewhere.

While many reviewers here love the “honesty” of this podcast, I sincerely doubted that in this episode. This was basically Christian apologetics, where the Atheist presents the “doubt” he is struggling with, and then the Christian knocks it down, at length. This episode didn’t feel even handed at all. Indeed, there was essentially no meaningful atheist response to 10+ minutes of Christian apologetics.

Hosts aren't playing games - just an honest look at Jesus and faith.

Really well researched and very thought provoking

Hebrews 11:1 reads: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” As a child brought up in the Christian tradition, I took the meaning of this verse for granted. It was obvious to me that Jesus was the person all the adults in my life at the time said that he was. Christmas had his name in it after all and that was my favorite holiday. Why would anyone lie to an innocent child the way so many parents push the Santa Claus myth to get them to behave and to fill them with hope of glorious rewards? At some point things got complicated for a number of reasons in the realm of my beliefs. I began shedding them like flies. The largest issue was that, at a certain point, I could no longer write off all the people that existed before Jesus died on the cross, or modern tribes in Africa that had no access to books or even literacy, or all the people who were born in places where other religions were more frequently the cultural norm, as future members of Hell. Sure, theologians might be able to cook up answers to these queries but they always to me seemed to lack “oomph.” It is my opinion now, as a person who could no longer be called a Christian, that a religious/spiritual practice is most often beneficial to one’s existence. But I don’t see why or how one practice focusing on personal betterment, helping the world, and forming positive communities can ever be argued to be inherently better than any other when their ends are so often the same. It seems like some kind of wrestling match between faiths that isn’t really necessary outside of forming a sort of tribal group cohesion. I view nationalism as much the same idea. Yet, I wonder if this is why such debates among faiths rage on into the 21st Century, the era of gene editing and man playing God more than ever. We are all looking for somewhere solid to drop our precarious metaphysical anchors... we long to KNOW we are going in the right direction. We want rewards for our struggle. Being outside of the Christian faith now for at least a decade, it is interesting to me how strange the average Sunday church service looks to me now with the congregation’s hands outstretched, the passing of the offering hat, the queue of the final altar call. It’s like a scripted tv show. But I am still open to hearing about the spiritual journeys of others, even as my spiritual practice has more or less been whittled down to breathing exercises and trying to be conscientious of other people’s feelings. I still find that Jesus is a good example of the kind of person humans should be striving to be; meanwhile I find most Christians these days would prefer to be like Joel Osteen (read: rich, with perfect teeth and with nothing close to dirty sandals on). As far as the rest of religious belief, vis a vis trying to answer the unanswerable questions plaguing us all for millennia, well... for the Christian it always comes back to blessed assurance and Hebrews 11:1. As far as I’m concerned, there are enough problems with the Bible to avoid believing that it is the infallible Word Of God. And yet, if someone wants to believe that, it is their right and I hold no animus towards them. There are many nuggets of wisdom to be found there among the parts that are no longer relevant. Proverbs is a good place to start. Ecclesiastes is fantastic. Christ’s Beatitudes could be a Bernie Sanders stump speech, and of course I like Bernie Sanders, who sounds so little like the person most evangelicals voted for in this past election. I like that the theme of this podcast is based around a sensible discussion which avoids the pitfalls of modern debates I have seen and heard wherein a scientist or atheist quite cockily refutes the strong faith of a learned theologian on the basis of a lack of evidence. When it comes to beliefs there will always be a lack of evidence to a non-believer. I know because I have lived on both sides of this divide. Honestly, life is hard either way. These two sides are talking apples and oranges. From my point of view, it all comes down to faith. Looking for any concrete evidence of miracles is a dead end. Miracles defy logic by their very nature. And yet, one could argue a beautiful work of art or a perfect melody is a miracle. I would. I don’t have to believe in the kind of miracle claims in the Bible to want to be like Jesus, nor did Jesus have to be resurrected to make him an admirable historical figure unlike any before or since. Of course it would be nice if Heaven existed and Hell was there to punish the wicked, but I think Heaven and Hell are meant to be metaphorical. They are states of being. The sad reality is, quite often the wicked are the ones turning the levers of our society, driving progress at the expense of untold millions of people. There is good and bad in everything and everyone. I conclude that because I have no recollection of my consciousness before, well, being conscious, then I will have no recollection of my unconsciousness when I shed this mortal coil. Instead of hoping for Heaven with streets of gold, I hope for a good sandwich or a good time with my family, and these goals are much more attainable and don’t fill me with existential dread like the idea of eternal Hell did to me in my youth. I am reminded of a good line in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: “Isn’t it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” I often pause to look closely at flowers or admire a beautiful tree or the sun glistening on the surface of a lake. And I appreciate them now as they are, apart from any cosmic significance or attribution to a Deity. This podcast was quite well done. It was an enjoyable listen and I will follow it. Top notch production and intelligent discussion. My only caution is that if you need the concrete to justify a belief in the supernatural, you are going to have to invent it.

I've been grieving over our society's inability to disagree with civility. Finally, along comes Hinge Podcast. This is something I have longed for: Two people agreeing to disagree, but remaining engaged in an intelligent, spirited debate. I'm hooked. I can't wait to see where this goes!

As a graduate student in the hard sciences, these are the conversations that have become increasingly less common in a time when perhaps we need to be having them more. Too often faith is dismissed as not being evidence based in academia but it is perhaps academia which has become a victim of its own close-minded system. Highly recommended for any and all people!

While there are many different apologetic or debate based podcasts out there, Hinge takes a completely different approach to the tensions surrounding faith, Christianity, and Jesus. It’s refreshing, authentic, unique, and worth the listen!